The RX480 has aged terribly well...

Chris. · 27 Oct 2019 at 21:33

I posted a thread before going ahead with my new rig order as I was torn about GPU choice. Ended up slamming my old Sapphire Nitro 8GB 480 in the new rig.

I am gobsmacked at how powerful this card still is and how much it was bottlenecked by the old rig.

If you want a budget card second hand this is a monster for the amount they go for, giving me the freedom to see how Navi develops rather than jump on team red and greens current offerings (was looking towards RTX super).

Im playing 4k here at details that completely trash the most powerful console available on a card you can currently pick up for sub £100 on ebay!

VincentHanna · 28 Oct 2019 at 10:01

Chris. said:
Im playing 4k here at details that completely trash the most powerful console available on a card you can currently pick up for sub £100 on ebay!

I'm not trashing your card, but your statement above is unlikely.

The Xbox One X has a GPU which is equivalent to an RX 580, which is 15% quicker than a RX 480.

z10m · 28 Oct 2019 at 10:12

Lol. This post just shows how low some people's expectations are regarding how games should look and run...

Yrkoon · 28 Oct 2019 at 10:37

VincentHanna said:
I'm not trashing your card, but your statement above is unlikely.

The Xbox One X has a GPU which is equivalent to an RX 580, which is 15% quicker than a RX 480.

agreed i loved my rx 480 and just upgraded on saturday but i would never try 4k on it and i don't see it performing as well as that

DragonQ · 28 Oct 2019 at 10:57

RX 480 is still an extremely capable 1080p card. Not really suitable for much else, except e-sports 1440p (which I used one for).

robfosters · 28 Oct 2019 at 11:17

Hasn’t mentioned his FPS at 4K though.

Bounce · 28 Oct 2019 at 11:19

robfosters said:
Hasn’t mentioned his FPS at 4K though.

10 fps

Emlyn_Dewar · 28 Oct 2019 at 11:26

I had one a couple years back and was pretty happy with performance, just picked up an 8gb one for £40 as didn't feel like paying current GPU prices.
Does the job but is occasionally struggling at 1440.
I'm not a graphics snob, and can enjoy things when they're not at "ultra". As long as it's smooth.

The 480/580 have definitely been great mid-tier cards.

Poneros · 28 Oct 2019 at 12:21

VincentHanna said:
I'm not trashing your card, but your statement above is unlikely.

The Xbox One X has a GPU which is equivalent to an RX 580, which is 15% quicker than a RX 480.

While it's true the GPUs are near equivalent remember that you don't get to choose the options on consoles, and some of them don't affect framerate much while affecting visuals significantly: eg textures, anisotropic filtering, FOV, sharpening, mods etc. Even on X1X if I put it up against my 480 it absolutely trashes the console picture, thinking of Witcher 3 specifically. In the pictures I'm showing the resolution is slightly too high for the 480 but I wasn't gonna reshoot it now; dropping to 1800p instead will do fine for 30 fps. Nonetheless, that's less important (will look sharper on PC anyway), look at the detail level.

Source: used to play with an XFX 480 GTR at 4K before I got my Vega. It was a phenomenal card & kinda wish I kept the money instead of upgrading. It really punched above its weight.

Chrisc · 28 Oct 2019 at 13:14

There is no doubt about it, the polaris cards have aged well, they seemed to have outlived the 1060.

Dave2150 · 28 Oct 2019 at 14:53

The Ps5 and future Xbox will likely be faster than a 2080ti, 3900x system, due to console optimisation.

I think many pc enthusiasts will be upset and in denial that a console is faster than their 1k-2k gaming rig for many years! Hahaha!

nashathedog · 28 Oct 2019 at 15:13

I've got an RX480 Red Devil as a back-up card, I've used it with my 3440x1440 monitor a few times & it does well as it's not hard to adjust a games graphics settings so you get decent performance with only a slight visual downgrade.

nashathedog · 28 Oct 2019 at 15:19

Dave2150 said:
The Ps5 and future Xbox will likely be faster than a 2080ti, 3900x system, due to console optimisation.

I think many pc enthusiasts will be upset and in denial that a console is faster than their 1k-2k gaming rig for many years! Hahaha!

I'd bet on there being no chance of getting 2080ti performance in the next gen models, I've been reading a lot of hilarious claims for the performance of next gen consoles lately, 4k 120hz for example & it's never gonna happen.

Bounce · 28 Oct 2019 at 15:23

nashathedog said:
I'd bet on there being no chance of getting 2080ti performance in the next gen models, I've been reading a lot of hilarious claims for the performance of next gen consoles lately, 4k 120hz for example & it's never gonna happen.

I imagine it will be 4k @ 30 Hz.

nashathedog · 28 Oct 2019 at 15:41

Bounce said:
I imagine it will be 4k @ 30 Hz.

Let's hope not, hopefully they learnt their lesson when claiming 30 fps was cinematic at the start of this gen. :rolleyes:

VincentHanna · 28 Oct 2019 at 15:50

Bounce said:
I imagine it will be 4k @ 30 Hz.

Xbox One X already does 4k @ 30fps (and that's at 60hz)

PS5 specs are looking really good from the leaks. Digital Foundry seem to think it'll be 4k/60hz and likely an option to run it at 1440p 120hz.

Obviously that depends on whether the developers are going to use RayTracing or not

It won't be as poweful as a 2080Ti, but I think what Dave2150 is saying is that because the console is a closed system with a set number of resources that won't vary from machine to machine, they can code the game optimally for that one configuration of hardware and code closer 'to the metal'

raptor4216 · 29 Oct 2019 at 12:02

This is a great card, paid £200 for mine for going on 3.5 years ago now and still able to run most games on decent settings, prior to this I think the longest I got out of a card was about 2 years. Got a 1440p monitor recently and its starting to struggle with modern games so will get a 5700XT at some point, prices are still crazy though

willhub · 29 Oct 2019 at 12:13

To be fair in terms of graphical details, the different between low and ultra in some games is negligible, the amount of extra performance for so little is insane.

I still demand ultra setting though because, well, if it ain't maxed out it's ****

Chrisc · 29 Oct 2019 at 12:48

Dave2150 said:
The Ps5 and future Xbox will likely be faster than a 2080ti, 3900x system, due to console optimisation.

I think many pc enthusiasts will be upset and in denial that a console is faster than their 1k-2k gaming rig for many years! Hahaha!

If that does become the case, Consoles will be well over the £600 mark.

VincentHanna · 29 Oct 2019 at 13:14

Would still be cheaper than just a high-end GPU on it's own.